"The Gauchito Gil is a religious figure, the object of popular devotion in Argentina. Its historical foundation is in the person of the gaucho Antonio Gil Mamerto Nunez, whom little is known with certainty. Born in Pay Udder
near Mercedes in Corrientes province, about 1840 and was assassinated on January 8, 1878 at about 8 km from Mercedes. Legend
popular stories vary, but generally, the legend, gaucho Antonio Gil was a rural worker and fell in love with a wealthy widow or had an affair with him. This earned him the hatred of Gil brothers of the widow and the chief local police, who had courted the same woman. Given the danger, Gil left the area and enlisted to fight in the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) against Paraguay. After returning, he was recruited by the Autonomist Party to fight in the civil war correntina against opposition Liberal Party, but Gil defected. There is that it takes the tradition of wrapping with red flags or red paint at the shrines of worship Gauchito Gil, since it is the color that characterizes the Autonomist Party in the province of Corrientes.
According to legend, eventually captured, his foot was hanging in a tree of gorse, and died of a cut in the throat. Gil told his executioner should pray in the name of Gil for the life of his son, who was very ill, the executioner and his son did and miraculously healed. He gave the body a proper burial Gil, and people who heard about the miracle built a shrine, which grew into today.
Today, the shrine built on the site of his tomb (located about 8 km from the city of Mercedes) receives hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year, especially on January 8, the anniversary of the death of Gil.
The cult of Gauchito Gil has spread not only the province of Corrientes, but also by the province of Chaco, north of Santa Fe, Mendoza, Buenos Aires and even the Federal Capital.
can be distinguished Gauchito Gil shrines by the side of roads of Argentina, characterized by having flags and red ribbons.
Traditions,
For routes of the Republic Argentina you can see small "sanctuaries" of Gauchito Gil, with flags, ribbons and red candles, where travelers stopped to pray and thank the alleged miracles, leaving some red on the site. Also tend to leave cigarettes and bottles of wine
Judging by the proliferation of "altars" dedicated to both popular figures, the number of devotees is increasing. As
red flags can be found around an image of Gauchito miracle in Chacarita and Palermo Soho, right in the city of Buenos Aires, as reported yesterday, THE NATION, reproduce the statues of the "spirit skeletal" in prisons and cemeteries of Buenos Aires.
One is a character who actually existed, "Gil lived in Corrientes
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